TNA Star Wasn’t ‘Ready’ For WWE Run

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A TNA Wrestling star has opened up about not being ready for their WWE run, having previously signed with the company.

A former two-time TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion, Dani Luna had a run in WWE NXT UK starting in 2019, signing a contract early the following year.

During a recent appearance on the I Love Wrestling podcast, Luna looked back on her time in WWE with fondness, reflecting on how it helped her move to the “next level”, saying:

“It was awesome. I was there for three years, and I learned so much in that time, training under the best coaches in the world and surrounded by some of the best wrestlers in the world.

“It was great, and I feel like it really helped push me into that next level of my career that I needed to achieve now in TNA. I felt like I could then go into TNA a much more rounded wrestler than I was before WWE.”

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She would, however, open up about signing with WWE at a young age and the shift she had going from an independent career, noting that she felt she wasn’t ready at the time, stating:

“No, I don’t necessarily think I was ready. I think I was physically capable enough, and ability-wise I think I was ready, but ultimately, I was very much still a child, and that’s such a big, scary world to be thrown into.

“Suddenly, Shawn Michaels is my boss; it’s such a crazy thing to go through at that age. I think more so, I was just very passive. I’d go to training, and I’d do what I was aske,d and I was very easy to work with, but I feel like I didn’t necessarily have anything about me yet because I was still just a blank slate of a wrestler.”

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Luna would indicate that her time in WWE has paved the path for the wrestler she is today, with her independent career helping her grow, explaining:

“So I feel like being there kind of helped build me up to become the Dani Luna that I am today. And I feel like leaving WWE, having some time on the indies to grow as well, really created the wrestler I actually am today and someone who very much believes in what I put out there, and what I present to the world that I now get to show on TNA every week.

“So I feel like I wouldn’t be the wrestler I am without all these things happening, even if it feels terrible at the time to be released from WWE, I knew it was going to turn me into something better and something more valuable, which I feel like I am now.”

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Her time in WWE would see Luna compete in NXT UK, leading to an alliance with Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews as Subculture, before she was released from her contract in 2022.

In 2023, the trio would appear on Impact Wrestling, with Andrews and Webster going on to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship and Luna becoming a two-time Knockouts World Tag Team Champion with Jody Threat.

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